| 1. | So he was a bread winner when he was nine.He did odds and sods to get things by any means. |
| 因此，他9岁的时候就开始养家活口。为了挣钱他不顾一切地干各种各样的零碎活儿。 |
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| 2. | Weeks counted up to months, and still he searched on, maintaining himself by small jobs of work in the intervals. |
| 几个星期过去了，几个月过去了，他仍然在寻觅，这其间他干些零碎活儿维持生活。 |
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| 3. | The women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and to do such little odd jobs as their less obliging husbands would not do for them. |
| 村里的女人也常常差遣他为她们跑腿，或者叫他做些自己不大听话的丈夫不愿意干的零碎活儿。 |
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